Satellite News

China Great Wall Industry Corporation has signed a contract with Sri Lanka’s SupremeSAT for the construction and the launch of a telecommunication satellite.

An ILS Proton M launch vehicle will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, with the SES-6 satellite on board on 3 June, 0918 UTC.

NASA has transferred operational control of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

National Technical Systems, Inc., a provider of testing and engineering services, announced it completed a series of qualification tests on NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), a satellite that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the moon’s surface and environmental influences on lunar dust.